Amy Taylor Dickson (Mrs. John Dickson), c. 1835

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 76.8 x 63.8 cm (30 1/4 x 25 1/8 in.)

framed: 91.4 x 79.4 x 5.7 cm (36 x 31 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1947.17.77

Artists / Makers

John Neagle (artist) American, 1796 - 1865

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Provenance

The sitter's son, Levi Dickson [1805-1872], Philadelphia. Susan Allen Dickson, Philadelphia.[1] the artist's son, Garrett Cross Neagle, Philadelphia; Gilbert Sunderland Parker, Philadelphia; Mrs. Anna P. Bly; (William Macbeth, New York); Franklin Bulkeley Smith [1864-1918], Worcester, Massachusetts; (his estate sale, American Art Association, 22-23 April 1920, no. 149); purchased by C. Deardon, probably for Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1947 to NGA.

[1] The provenance published in the NGA systematic catalogue reads: "The sitter's son, Levi Dickson, Jr. [d. 1883], Philadelphia; his sister, Susan Allen Dickson, Philadelphia." Too late for publication, it was determined that this information was not quite accurate. There were several Levi Dicksons in the family, and the sitter's son was not the Levi who died in 1883. Susan Allen Dickson was not the sitter's daughter; however she lent the painting to an exhibition in 1887/1888, and was a family member, although her relationship to the sitter and the sitter's son has not yet been clarified. This version of the provenance provides only that information which is confirmed. (See notes on the family genealogy in NGA curatorial files.)

Associated Names

American Art Association
Bly, Anna P., Mrs.
Clarke, Thomas Benedict
Dickson, Levi
Dickson, Susan Allen
Knoedler & Company, M.
Macbeth Galleries
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
Neagle, Garrett Cross
Parker, Gilbert S.
Smith, Franklin Bulkeley

Exhibition History

1887: Loan Exhibition of Historical Portraits, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1887-1888, no. 126.

1921: Exhibition of Paintings by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, November 1921, no. 4.

1925: Exhibition of Portraits by John Neagle, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1925, no. 31.

1928: Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928-1931, unnumbered and unpaginated catalogue.

Bibliography

1925: Fielding, Mantle. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Portraits by John Neagle. Exh. cat. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1925: no. 31, 50.

1928: Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke. Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928, unnumbered.

1959: Patrick, Ransom R. "The Early Life of John Neagle, Philadelphia Portrait Painter." Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, 1959: 93-94.

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 84, repro.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 200, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 239, repro.

1998: Torchia, Robert Wilson, with Deborah Chotner and Ellen G. Miles. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 24-27, repro.